I. Themes river valleys and migrations lost and found Purusha, Indra and Manu

Harappan priest/king

II. Dravidian and Aryan Origins

• Myths:
• Aryan Rig Veda, Vedic period c. 1500-50 BCE
  
  
• western colonial scholars 18th-19th century
  
  
• Philology
• Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin
  
  
• Manu
  
  
• Indo-European
  
  
• Archaeology
• 1921*
  
  
• Mohenjodaro and Harappa
  
  
• Migration*
• Dravidian
  
  
• Aryan
  
  
• History, Myth,and Archaeology
  
  
  

III. Culture

• Harappan artifacts
  
  
• Aryan society
• caste and jati
• kshatriyas
• brahmans
• vaishyas
• shudras
• outcasts
• Brahmanism
  
  
• Ramayana
  
  
• worldviews
• Upanishads
  
  
• samsara:
  
• karma:
  
• moksha:
  

IV. Comparisons

• Matrix
  
  
• South Asia: traditions and encounters
  
  
• Questions?
• Next time: Lost and Found on the Yellow River: T&E ch. 5, Encounters Instructions of Yi (ch. 3)